Shell confirms gas-bearing reservoir in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea
Shell Egypt drilled the first well in its Mina West three-well exploration campaign in North East El-Amriya block in the Mediterranean Sea. Primary data confirmed the presence of a gas-bearing reservoir.
Further evaluation of the acquired data is required to determine the size and recoverable potential of the discovery, the company said in a release Nov. 21.
The well was drilled by Stena Drilling’s Stena Forth mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) in about 250 m of water in the Nile Delta.
In September, Shell plc subsidiary BG International Ltd. agreed to farm out a 40% interest in the North East El-Amriya offshore area (Block 3) in the Egyptian Mediterranean Sea to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. (KUFPEC) subsidiary KUFPEC (Egypt) Ltd. (KEL) (OGJ Online, Sept. 22, 2023).
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
